# obverse Summary::The opposite. --- # Notes --- # obverse - Definition ## Adjective 1 of 2 1: facing the observer or opponent 2: having the base narrower than the top (e.g. an obverse leaf) 3: constituting the obverse of something : OPPOSITE obversely adverb 2 of 2 ## obverse - noun 1: the side of a coin or currency note bearing the chief device and lettering broadly : a front or principal surface 2: a counterpart having the opposite orientation or force their rise was merely the obverse of the Empire's fall —A. J. Toynbee also : OPPOSITE sense 1 joy and its obverse, sorrow 3: a proposition inferred immediately from another by denying the opposite of what the given proposition affirms the obverse of "all A is B" is "no A is not B"  Clipped from [Obverse Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obverse) at 2024-10-17. # References [[obversion]]